Exclusive | Peter Greene was ‘totally normal’ in last call with manager before death

Peter Greene was “totally normal” during what may have been his last phone call before his shocking death this week.

The “Pulp Fiction” actor and his longtime manager, Gregg Edwards, chatted on Wednesday — the same day neighbors said a nonstop loop of Christmas music began blasting from Greene’s Lower East Side home.

“That was the last time I talked to him,” Edwards told The Post.

Peter Greene was found dead in his Manhattan home Friday. GC Images

The pair, whose decade-long working relationship had blossomed into a deep friendship, were comforting one another ahead of their respective surgeries.

Greene, 60, was scheduled to go under the knife to remove a benign tumor from near his lung on Friday — the day his body was found.

“He sounded okay … It was just a totally normal conversation. He was a little nervous about the operation going in, but he said it wasn’t super serious,” said Edwards, who has an upcoming hernia surgery.

“He was talking about that and hoping that I was going to be okay and wishing me well as I was wishing him well. We’re good friends. I love the guy … We were friends for over a decade.”

The pair ended their call and a short time later, Christmas music began pounding from behind Greene’s Clinton Street door — and didn’t stop until a concerned neighbor called for a wellness check.

A locksmith arrived around 3:25 p.m. Friday to find “The Mask” actor unresponsive. He was declared dead at the scene.

Greene made a name for himself playing villains in the 90s, including “The Mask” opposite Jim Carey. ©New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Collection

Cops said no foul play was suspected, but that a cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner. 

At the time of his death, Greene was signed on to multiple projects, including as a co-producer and narrator for an upcoming documentary about the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID that Edwards is set to direct.

Greene had not yet done any narration for “From the American People: The Withdrawal of USAID,” which is also attached to actors Jason Alexander and Kathleen Turner as well as Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof.

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The “Usual Suspects” star was also about to begin production in January with Mickey Rourke on an independent thriller called “Mascots.”

Greene had struggled with “demons” in the past, Edwards conceded, while noting the actorappeared happy and healthy in the days before his death.

He was beloved by neighbors in the Clinton Street apartment, with multiple residents lamenting the actor’s sudden death.

Christmas music was constantly blaring inside Greene’s apartment for more than a day before his body was found. GoogleMaps

“He was an amazing man. He was the very, very best,” one woman who heard the Christmas music told The Post, declining to share her name.

Mary Patierno, who was staying with a friend in a nearby unit, described Greene’s loss as “pretty devastating for everybody in the building.”

“My friends that I’m staying with, I told them, and they were like, ‘Oh, my God, he’d help us with our packages and carry stuff up and help us with our dog, and he was a really good guy,” Patierno said, adding she had met Greene on several occasions.

“He was such a nice guy. He was so helpful. I read some of the reports this morning, and they said he was a difficult guy to work with — I didn’t find him difficult. That was not my perception of him.”

Greene also starred in “Pulp Fiction.” MIramax

Greene, who hailed from Montclair, New Jersey, ran away from home at 15 and lived on the streets of the Big Apple, where he turned to drug use and eventually dealing, he told Premier magazine in 1996.